LA School Report

John Deasy‘s tenure as superintendent of LA Unified School District is continuing as the school board today gave him a “satisfactory” performance evaluation and extended his contract to June, 30, 2016. The announcement, after nearly five hours of a closed door meeting at the district’s downtown headquarters, ended five frenetic days of uncertainty that began with...

LA Unified school board members are hammering it out behind closed doors today, looking both at superintendent John Deasy’s performance and his contract. A source close to school board disputed the significance of a news report from Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume that provided details of an offer from Deasy last week to resign. The source said the report was...

As supporters gathered at a rally outside of LA Unified headquarters in advance of today’s school board meeting, the scorecard of those who have come out in support of Superintendent John Deasy versus those who have voiced opposition is increasingly lop-sided.  In the “Deasy should go” column is one of the most powerful unions in the...

LA School Report today brings you the latest news and information of events at today’s LA Unified school board meeting. On the agenda is Superintendent John Deasy’s performance review and contract discussion, and the introduction of a censure motion against school board president Richard Vladovic for sexual harassment allegations. Go to @laschoolreport.

Big Day today for LA Unified. Here’s the schedule although times are generally estimates: 11 am: A rally begins outside district headquarters. It’s sponsored by a group of community and educational groups that want to see Superintendent John Deasy remain in his job. 12:30 pm: The board meeting opens with a public comment period. This...

No matter what happens later today when LA Unified superintendent John Deasy is set to emerge from a closed-door session with school board members to discuss his future, the events leading up to this moment remain murky. Will we ever know if Deasy is being pushed out, resigning or something in between? One thing is...

Advice for LA Superintendent John Deasy: Should he stay or should he go? At stake is leadership of the second-largest school district in the U.S., a sprawling system of more than 677,000 students, beset by a litany of crisis, including budget shortfalls, intense board politics, tougher academic standards, a troubled one-to-one Ipad initiative and a...

In anticipation of what’s sure to be a long and dramatic school board meeting tomorrow, LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer says he’s optimistic that the board can convince Superintendent John Deasy not to resign as head of the nation’s second largest school district. “What I know is that I want to continue to work...